Law Enforcement Administration
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Course Introduction
Law Enforcement Administration explores the principles, functions, and practices of managing law enforcement agencies at local, state, and federal levels. The course covers topics such as organizational structure, leadership and supervision, personnel management, policy development, budgeting, accountability, and strategic planning. Students will examine challenges facing modern law enforcement administrators, including community relations, ethics, technology integration, and legal considerations. Through case studies and practical examples, learners will gain insights into effective decision-making, communication, and problem-solving within a law enforcement context.
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The Police in America An Introduction 8th Edition by Samuel Walker
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Chapter 1: Police and Society
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Q1) The policing approach that concentrates on relatively minor quality of life issues and is said to contribute to a significant reduction in serious crime is known as
A)problem oriented policing.
B)anti terrorist policing.
C)zero tolerance policing.
D)repeat offender policing.
Answer: C
Q2) Typical police officers fire their weapon ____________ times during their career.
A)0 to 1
B)3-5
C)6-8
D)over eight times
Answer: A
Q3) Preserving constitutional rights is not the responsibility of the police function.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The History of the American Police
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Q1) The use of the two-way radio by police became widespread in the A)1920s.
B)1930s.
C)1940s.
D)1950s.
E)1960s.
Answer: B
Q2) The policies used to assert control over the police operations and officers were collected in SOP manuals and became the basic tool of police managers.The term SOP stands for
A)standard organizational policies.
B)standard overview of policies.
C)standard operating procedures.
D)standard organizational provisions.
Answer: C
Q3) The "father of modern policing" is Robert Peel.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Contemporary Law Enforcement Industry
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Q1) The primary responsibility for police protection rests with which level of government?
A)federal
B)cities and counties
C)municipalities and corporations
D)state and local
Answer: C
Q2) What is the major problem concerning the law enforcement fragmentation issue?
A)budgeting shortcuts due to high demand
B)A decline in citizen satisfaction with law enforcements efforts.
C)A rise in overall crime rate and low crime prevention capabilities.
D)A lack of communication between agencies in the same geographic area.
Answer: D
Q3) The authors list two major remedies for issues associated with fragmentation. They are
A)consolidation and contracting.
B)increased protection and crime reduction.
C)higher arrests and prosecutions.
D)effectiveness and efficiency.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Police Organizations
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Q1) For what purpose is the collective bargaining method of negotiation designed?
A)It provides an avenue to lawfully gain information from criminals.
B)Police unions are provided with the funds necessary to litigate on behalf of police officers.
C)It provides a structured framework for settling differences between employers and employees.
D)It provides accurate evaluations of policing needs and determines appropriate strategies to meet these needs.
Q2) American law enforcement agencies are organized along quasi-military lines.This means
A)the military may be called upon to assist under certain conditions.
B)the police are descendants from the original military strategies.
C)the police resemble the military in some but not all respects.
D)the military is used to allocate surplus resources to the police at times.
Q3) What is the premise of the resource dependency theory?
A)Organizations are most effective when decentralized.
B)Organizations are created to meet specific goals.
C)Organizations require social contacts.
D)Organizations must obtain resources to survive.
Q4) What are the major criticisms of the bureaucratic form of organization?
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Chapter 5: Police Of cers I: Entering Police Work
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Q1) What are the six responsibilities of the civil service agency?
Q2) Which of the following is the only predictive factor that correlates with future positive on-the-job performance?
A)IQ
B)success at previous jobs
C)recruit training score
D)none of these are correct
Q3) Eighty three percent of the largest police departments test job applicants for A)physical fitness.
B)ethical principles.
C)drug use.
D)reading comprehension.
Q4) According to the text, why do people become police officers?
Q5) The protection provided by civil service rules and police unions that makes firing an officer difficult is called:
A) motivation.
B)job barrier.
C)job security.
D)tenure.
Q6) According to the text, why do police departments have personnel problems?
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Chapter 6: Police Of cers II: on the Job
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Q1) According to the text, gay and lesbian police officers challenge
A)recruiting practices.
B)stereotypes involving the macho nature of police work.
C)heterosexual power in the hierarchy
D)the fact of the macho nature of police work.
Q2) Community policing is a major effort to
A)improve efficiency.
B)more effectively use community taxes.
C)use community informants to help solve crime.
D)improve police attitudes towards the public.
Q3) Research by the Police Foundation found that officers believe that "it is not unusual for a police officer to turn a blind eye to improper conduct by other officers."
A)True
B)False
Q4) William Westley found that the majority of officers stated they would turn in a fellow officer who took money from a citizen.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the concept of a police subculture.
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Chapter 7: Patrol: the Backbone of Policing
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Q1) The method of patrol described as a difficult tradeoff between efficiency and community relations is described as
A)foot patrol.
B)motor patrol.
C)bicycle patrol.
D)community patrol.
Q2) The National Academy of Science report on policing identified the "standard model of policing." What are the five basic strategies for improving the effectiveness of policing that the National Academy recommends?
Q3) Because of community policing, most patrolling done today is foot patrol.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Approximately what percent of calls to the police are for noncrime incidents?
A)10 percent
B)30 percent
C)50 percent
D)70 percent
Q5) There have been four major observational studies of police patrol over the past 50 years.List and describe those four studies.
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Chapter 8: Peacekeeping and Order Maintenance
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Q1) Which model holds that effective responses to non-crime calls can help the police establish greater credibility with the public?
A)community cooperation model
B)police knowledge model
C)crime prophylactic model
D)social work model
Q2) Which of the following is the strategy most often taken by the police in managing juvenile crime?
A)education drop-out prevention
B)gang prevention
C)drug prevention
D)law enforcement
Q3) Alcohol-related traffic fatalities have declined since the 1920s.Which of the following is not a factor contributing to this trend?
A)increase in legal drinking age
B)air bags
C)better roads
D)increased speed limits
Q4) What are the four citizen expectations, as proposed by John C.Meyer?
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Chapter 9: The Police and Crime
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Q1) The Police Executive Research Forum divides follow-up investigations into three categories.Which of the following is not one of these categories?
A)primary activities
B)routine activities
C)secondary activities
D)tertiary activities
Q2) Preliminary investigations consist of five basic steps.Which of the following is not one of these basic steps?
A)preparing preliminary reports
B)securing the crime scene
C)providing referral information to witnesses
D)collecting all relevant evidence
Q3) Criminal investigation offers a clearly defined measure of success.What is this measure?
A)unfounding a report
B)uncovering a lead
C)arresting a suspect
D)convicting an offender
Q4) What are some of the myths about detective work?
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Chapter 10: Innovations in Police Strategy
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Q1) Both community policing and problem-oriented policing originated in the late 1970s and 1980s as a result of a series of crises in policing.Explain the four crises that provided the impetus for change.
Q2) One of the major problems with the implementation of the CAPS program was
A)great demand for more change on part of police.
B)the 911 system.
C)no community involvement.
D)distribution of large financial resources.
Q3) Eck and Maguire maintain that there are three organizational changes that agencies need to make in order to successfully implement community policing.Which of the following is not one of the three changes?
A)response time
B)organizational structure
C)management
D)organizational culture
Q4) A significant majority of our police chiefs are well trained in community policing and understand what the concept of community policing means.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Police Discretion
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Q1) Fyfe conducted a study of the restrictive policy on deadly force adopted by the NYPD.What was his finding?
A)The weekly average number of firearm discharges increased.
B)The weekly average number of firearm discharges decreased.
C)There was little impact on the weekly average number of firearm discharges.
D)The department saw a large decline in the number of civil suits brought against them as a result of deadly force policies.
Q2) What are the three examples of administrative rulemaking used in your text? Explain each in detail.
Q3) What is an advantage that written rules offers to the citizenry?
A)They eliminate any confusion over law-abiding behavior.
B)They ensure equal protection of the law.
C)They ensure a person's satisfaction with police efforts.
D)They mandate that police attend to the victim's preferences.
Q4) CALEA is the branch of the FBI that ensures that local police departments are following federal rules of discretion.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the three basic strategies for controlling discretion?
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Chapter 12: Legitimacy and Community Relations
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Q1) A number of police officers concede that other officers sometimes use excessive force.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Public attitudes are affected by controversial incidents, particularly
A)questionable shootings or use of physical force.
B)theft or organized theft rings.
C)sex crimes or organized prostitution.
D)internal scandals or questions of integrity.
Q3) What is the largest minority group in America?
A)African Americans
B)Hispanics/Latinos
C)Asians
D)Haitians
Q4) The Northeastern University Institute on Race and Justice advises that "racial or gender differences in both driving behavior and automobile type may affect rates of citations or warnings."
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the four dimensions of trust in policing?
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Chapter 13: Police Corruption
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Q1) According to Carter and Barker, ____________ includes actions that tends "to injure, insult, trespass upon human dignity ...and/or violate an inherent legal right" of a citizen
A)police violence
B)police profiteering
C)abuse of authority
D)occupational deviance
E)police perks
Q2) Officers in the CRASH unit of which police department were accused in 1998-99 of routinely choking and punching individuals for the sole purpose of intimidating them?
A)Los Angeles
B)Chicago
C)New York
D)Washington
E)Detroit
Q3) The Rampart Scandal occurred in the city of Boston.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the components of an effective internal corruption control program?
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Chapter 14: Accountability of the Police
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Q1) The system which identifies officers with a disproportionate number of citizen complaints is called
A)Early Intervention System.
B)Problem Officer Program.
C)Troubled Officer Avoidance.
D)Officer Effectiveness Improvement.
Q2) Early intervention systems have several goals, each related to different target audiences.Which of the following is not one the target audiences?
A)individual officers
B)the criminal justice system
C)police-community relations
D)supervisors
Q3) Police departments suffer numerous penalties for not being accredited.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the key elements of the COMPSTAT program discussed in this chapter?
Q5) What are some of the major issues with the internal affairs division?
Q6) What are consent decrees, and what has been their impact on police departments?
Q7) What are the four basic models of citizen oversight?
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Chapter 15: The Future of Policing in America
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Q1) Some of the most overlooked careers in policing are jobs held by A)commissioned officers.
B)managers.
C)civilians.
D)volunteers.
Q2) The system used to more effectively and efficiently manage calls for service from the public is commonly referred to as
A)mobile computing dispatch.
B)computer aided dispatch.
C)technology aided dispatch.
D)integrated systems dispatch.
Q3) Deborah Osborne and Susan Wernicke describe three of the most common types of crime analysis used by police agencies.Describe each of those types of crime analysis in detail.
Q4) The result of mobilizing police personnel into active military and military reserves has led to
A)reduced budgets.
B)personnel shortages.
C)demographic changes.
D)reduced hiring standards.
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